Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon .
2 formerly in John Street in the Adelphi , west London ; where Wardle gives his dinner-party after Pickwick 's release from the Fleet .
3 What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble .
4 No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products .
5 What Trudy and Juanita and the rest of them are trying to say , it seems to me , is that Tod gives them the creeps .
6 Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me ,
7 the lists that Connie gave me ,
8 It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future .
9 Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water .
10 I 'd like to ask you to er , read it through , and the application form that Jeff gave you yesterday , yes ?
11 ‘ Talking of addresses , you mentioned that Angy gave hers to Delia . ’
12 In spite of what Eddie said , it 's possible that Angy gave it to Delia but if Eddie 's right , then it looks very much as if Delia — or someone else — took it .
13 I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’
14 It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result .
15 After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait .
16 It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster .
17 It is significant that Buchan gave his middle-aged hero , the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn , a literary ancestry : .
18 But , the old ones that Tom gave me originally they 've not flowered now for about three months yet they 're not dead .
19 I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on
20 Second , he says that Jesus gave them power over unclean spirits , and that when they were under pressure the Spirit of their Father would speak within them ( 11:20 ) .
21 She smiled at Aggie ; although Aggie gave her no answering smile , but just said , ‘ Well , the day 's Thursday .
22 And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams .
23 I 've got about four sheets that Audrey gave me !
24 Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden .
25 I might use some of that polythene , that thick polythene sheet that Derek gave me and do that round the bottom sheet .
26 This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God .
27 It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis .
28 The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more .
29 The look that McAllister gave him when she said this was so killing that Dr Neil decided to remove temptation by removing himself .
30 Carson scribbled down all the details that Cotterell gave him and commented , ‘ That was fast . ’
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